Making, revoking and objecting to gifts: By others.
1. Any member of the following classes of persons, in the order of the priority listed, may make an anatomical gift of all or a part of the decedent’s body for an authorized purpose, unless the decedent, at the time of death, has made an unrevoked refusal to make that anatomical gift:
(a) A person designated as the person with authority to make an anatomical gift of all or part of the body of the decedent in a legally valid document or in an affidavit executed in accordance with subsection 6;
(b) The spouse of the decedent;
(c) An adult son or daughter of the decedent;
(d) Either parent of the decedent;
(e) An adult brother or sister of the decedent;
(f) A grandparent of the decedent;
(g) A guardian of the person of the decedent at the time of death; and
(h) A person who held the primary domicile of the decedent in joint tenancy with the decedent at the time of death.
Ê The legal procedure for authorization must be defined and established by the Committee on Anatomical Dissection established by the University and Community College System of Nevada.
2. An anatomical gift may not be made by a person listed in subsection 1 if:
(a) A person in a prior class is available at the time of death to make an anatomical gift;
(b) The person proposing to make an anatomical gift knows of a refusal or contrary indications by the decedent; or
(c) The person proposing to make an anatomical gift knows of an objection to making an anatomical gift by a member of the person’s class or a prior class.
3. An anatomical gift by a person authorized under subsection 1 must be made by:
(a) A document of gift signed by him; or
(b) His telegraphic, recorded telephonic or other recorded message, or other form of communication from him that is contemporaneously reduced to writing and signed by the recipient.
4. An anatomical gift by a person authorized under subsection 1 may be revoked by any member of the same or a prior class if, before procedures have begun for the removal of a part from the body of the decedent, the physician, technician or enucleator removing the part knows of the revocation.
5. A failure to make an anatomical gift under subsection 1 is not an objection to the making of an anatomical gift.
6. A person 18 years of age or older wishing to authorize another person to make an anatomical gift of all or part of his body in the event of his death may execute an affidavit before a notary public in substantially the following form:
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I, ..................................., (person authorizing another person to make an anatomical gift of his body in the event of his death) do hereby designate ................................... (person who is being authorized to make an anatomical gift of the body of another person in the event of his death) to make an anatomical gift of all or part of my body in the event of my death for authorized purposes and in accordance with the procedure for authorization defined and established by the Committee on Anatomical Dissection established by the University and Community College System of Nevada.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ........
day of the month of ......... of the year .......
.............................................................................
(Notary Public)
Last modified: February 26, 2006